Lord Rooker: The review of public administration consultation process attracted 1,206 responses.
	The report Future Post-Primary Arrangements in Northern Ireland—Advice from the Post-Primary Review Working Group, widely known as the Costello report, was not published for consultation. The working group's remit was,
	"To take account of the responses to the consultation on the Burns Report, including the diversity of views on academic selection, and provide advice on options for future arrangements for post-primary education".
	In view of the advisory nature of its remit, its report was not published for consultation.

Lord Warner: This is a matter for the chair of the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. I have written to Clive Morton informing him of your enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library. I am informed by the chairman of Monitor (the statutory name for which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts) that the trust has made good progress during 2005–06 in addressing the financial deficit which it incurred in 2004–05.

Lord Rooker: Details of the number of residential and non-residential planning applications received by the Planning Service for each year since 2000 in (a) Carrickfergus Borough Council area, (b) Larne Borough Council area, (c) Newtownabbey Borough Council, and (d) Belfast City Council area are provided in the table below.
	
		Number of Planning applications* received between -- 2000 and 2005
		
			 District 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 
			 Carrickfergus 282 297 317 331 309 315 
			 Lame 361 350 374 397 462 427 
			 Newtownabbey 602 603 671 691 716 677 
			 Belfast 2,372 2,590 2,365 2,570 2,658 2,460 
		
	
	* Some of these will be duplicate application and some will be withdrawn prior to decision.

Lord Warner: Information is not available in the form requested. The Department of Health does not hold data on the number of people who receive medication. However 359,100 prescription items of methylphenidate hydrochloride were dispensed in the community in England in 2004. Ritalin is one brand of the drug methylphenidate, and accounted for 19 per cent. of the total number of methylphenidate items.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Government announced in November 2005 that a renewable transport fuels obligation (RTFO) will be introduced from 1 April 2008. The RTFO will require all suppliers of transport fuels in the UK to ensure that 5 per cent. of their total fuel sales come from renewable sources by 2010 in order to help meet our climate change objectives. In practice, this is likely to mean that by 2010 the vast majority of UK forecourts will be selling standard fuel blended with biofuel, with most private and commercial vehicles also running on blends that include biodiesel or bioethanol.
	The Department for Transport provides limited grant funding towards the installation of alternative refuelling and recharging infrastructure. The RTFO should ensure that refuelling facilities for alternative fuels will be available in large scale across the UK by 2010.
	I understand that bioethanol is already being sold in blends of up to 5 per cent. at around 150 outlets in the south-east and north-west of England, but as retailers are not generally distinguishing the fuel as renewable we do not have precise numbers. Information on sites selling other renewable fuels is available on a regional basis from http://www.est.org.uk/fleet/calculators/refuelling/index.cfm?mode=results.
	The Government have also put in place a number of incentives to encourage the uptake of clean and fuel-efficient vehicles. These include fiscal incentives such as the company car tax and vehicle excise duty systems, which are both structured to reward those who purchase the most fuel-efficient, low CO2 vehicles. These incentives are deliberately technology-neutral and we are not setting specific targets for any particular technology such as for hybrid vehicles. The Government's Powering Future Vehicles strategy, published in July 2002, sets a target that by 2012 cars with a fuel efficiency of 100 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre or better will make up at least 10 per cent. of new car sales.